They've also re-signed in that time, D'Brickashaw Ferguson, Nick Mangold, and David Harris to big contracts (as well as Revis at 4 years 46 million).

The thing is though, every single one of those deals was front loaded and allowed the Jets to move through these guys quickly. The issues compounded though from three giant cap mistakes:

1. Mark Sanchez's new contract mixed with his masterful regression.
2. Using the cap relief provided last off-season by the new Sanchez contract to sign Tim Tebow and LaRon Landry. Neither player can be seen as a weapon for Sanchez and even with how poorly he played, he had almost no weapons all year.
3. Guaranteeing deals via restructuring of several players (including Bart Scott and Darrelle Revis) as the Jets made an unsuccessful run at Nnamdi somugha in August 2011.

I don't think I'm missing anything here. The plan was always to make these moves thanks to front loaded deals, but those three things combined put the Jets in a much bigger hole then they should have been in. If the Jets had never made that run at Nnamdi, they probably would have parted ways with Bart Scott last season instead of this one. The biggest issue isn't getting under the cap, it's finding ways to bring in low-cost players who can actually contribute despite being bottom of the barrel signings.

It's a precarious off-season in New York. Tannenbaum did a lot of good, but those three major mistakes are probably what cost him his job.

As a poster already noted, it seems highly possible that one or both of these guys could be on the Bills' radar soon because we now have Pettine as our DC. I've always thought Pace is overrated but Bart Scott could be of interest to me for the Bills for the veteran minimum.

Does he have ANYTHING left? The Bills would more than likely want to bring him in because of familiarity with the DC and for the veteran leadership more than anything. Also, it happens we are extremely weak at LB so anyone would help at this point. We're THAT bad at the position. I understand he's not good against the pass? Is he at least alright at stopping the run? While our defense needs to get better at defending the pass, our run defense was even worse and we could use a LB who can actually do something against the run and make a tackle.

So, does Scott have anything left to offer? I don't expect him to be nearly as good as he was (he was a pretty damn good LB just a couple seasons ago), nor do I even expect him to be a starter anymore but I wonder if he'd help our LB depth and provide some leadership to a team that needs it.

Ed Hartwell injuries derailed him. Bart Scott was good when he first came to the Jets, but he got old and slowed down which happens. its not that he wasn't a good player and anyways he wasn't released yet, he may stay with the Jets if he takes a paycut but he can't stay at his current pay which is way too high._________________